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CI-620 System Analysis and Design

Final

Instructor: Ed Quigley 724.774.2088

CI-620 Final Exam

This page contains the Final Exam for CI-620, System Analysis and Design.
Your submission should consist of this question page, with your typed answers attached.
Please identify each page with your name in the header/footer/etc.
If you use drawings in your response, freehand pencil drawings are satisfactory.
Brevity is a virtue; if you can answer a question in three lines, please do so.
Answer any 4 of the following 8 questions:

1. Summarize Simon's Chapter 6, "Who is the Client?" and "Time and Space Horizons for Design", and discuss the effect of his thoughts on both Analysis and Design.

2.Several handouts have discussed disintermediation through information systems. In what scenarios is this likely to succeed? Or fail? What common elements of success can you discern?

3.What is required for good Design? Explain with examples.

4.What does Simon mean by Satisficing? Compare and contrast with other mainstream words that deal with the same topic.

5.Answer both parts of this two-part question:

Summarize Mok's business approach to Design.
What does F.P. Brookes mean when he urges designers to throw one away? How do we implement his insight?

6.What are the identifying characteristics of projects (as opposed to non-projects)? What are the three sides of the project management pyramid? What are the implications and priorities of this approach to PM?

7.What does Gelb mean by synvergent thinking? Describe his PROPAR approach to presenting information.

8.What have you learned that you can apply in the real world?

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